Samantha's review
Lucy
by Jamaica Kincaid
Samantha's review
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Samantha's review
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I read this when I was about 14 and hated it. The main character, Lucy, was so relentlessly hostile I found her completely unsympathetic. Then a few years later I started to really like my memory of the book. I re-read it and thought it was brilliant. Lucy is, so angry, but I love her for it. This is an unsentimental political novel that manages to elude dogmatism or hyperbole. It's about colonialism, imported labor, women's work, family and sexuality, but power and 'goodness' are shifting relationships among the characters. It's really personal too. The relationship between Lucy and her mother is central and, let me tell you: it's *piercing*.
Kincaid's terse writing style is shown off best in this book, it's devastating and really beautiful. I didn't like _Annie John_ nearly as much. _A small place_ and _Talk Stories_, both nonfiction, are pretty great. The others I don't remember so well anymore.
(I saw her speak once and she was this awful bourgie woman. I'll p...more
Kincaid's terse writing style is shown off best in this book, it's devastating and really beautiful. I didn't like _Annie John_ nearly as much. _A small place_ and _Talk Stories_, both nonfiction, are pretty great. The others I don't remember so well anymore.
(I saw her speak once and she was this awful bourgie woman. I'll p...more
